Origin
From WikiPETia.info
| Origin | |
|---|---|
| Founded | 2008 |
| Headquarters | West Sacramento, CA, USA |
| Website | www.originmaterials.com |
Company Profile
Origin is a leading technology company with a mission to enable the world’s transition to sustainable materials and started operations in 2008, when chemical engineering students from the University of California founded this material technology company. Origin has applied first-principles thinking to challenging, rewarding problems in chemistry and engineering. R&D is their heart and soul.
Origin became a publicly traded company in 2021. The company has partnered with some of the world’s great companies, including leaders in consumer-packaged goods, manufacturing, and top brands.
Today the company is commercializing a breakthrough in recycling circularity and product performance, with the world’s first PET caps and closures. Origin is working with partners to develop technologies and materials for reducing carbon emissions and improving performance of everyday things like car tires, clothing and more. Origin has developed multiple sustainable and performance-enhanced solutions for improving recycling and circularity and includes its all-PET caps and closures, as well as low-carbon material solutions for a wide variety of products and applications.
The company developed a platform for turning the carbon found in biomass into useful materials, while capturing carbon in the process. The science has steadily advanced, from initial proof of concept to pilot demonstration and beyond. In 2016, Nestlé Waters and Danone formed an alliance with Origin to commercialize the platform’s first product, plant-based PET plastic with a low carbon footprint. PepsiCo joined the NaturALL Bottle Alliance in 2018.
Origin offers their customers versatile materials and intermediates and expert guidance from their team, so customers can achieve their goals for their products and applications.
Origin offers the first and only commercial-scale manufacturing solution for PET caps. The company introduced the world’s first CSD (Carbonated Soft Drink) PET Cap, the lightest of its kind produced commercially.
Products
- PET Caps and Closures
- PET (Polyethylene Terephthalate)
- CMF (Chloromethylfurfural)
- Para-xylene
- PTA (Terephthalic Acid)
- FDCA (Furandicarboxylic Acid)
- Carbon Black
- HTC (Hydrothermal Carbon)
- Furfural
- Levulinic Acid
- Diamine Program
- Furanics
Industry
- Automotive
- Construction
- Packaging
- Specialty Chemicals
- Textiles
History
References
PETplanet Insider Articles
Issue 09 / 2023: Recyclable PET polymer incorporating furandicarboxylic acid successfully processed into preforms
Issue 06 / 2024: Origin Materials and Bachmann Group to mass produce PET caps and closures
Issue 06 / 2024: From “maybe” to “definitely”
